I had an enjoyable day here in Kansas City, meeting with four different customers. It was very helpful to get reminders of “real world” challenges and use cases. Flying home now, and back in the San Diego saddle tomorrow.
[article] Research: What Happens When Influencers Turn Off Comments. The comment section. You’ve never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. But keep it on!
[blog] Platform engineering problems: can ops actually do product management? My friend Coté has a good long post about platform engineering and the need for product thinking.
[blog] Cloud Run GPU: Make your LLMs serverless. I’m starting to think that this is a big deal. Easier access to LLM hosting and experimentation will only expand the realm of use cases.
[blog] Serverless Sucks? But why all this serverless stuff? Just use servers and make life easier. Not so fast, says Derek.
[blog] Postmortem: Latency spikes in Apache Hbase on kubernetes. When you stack platforms on top of platforms, troubleshooting becomes more of an exploration.
[blog] Building Quality Software: 4 Engineering-Centric Techniques. Here’s some useful guidance from the Software Engineering Institute. Good instrumentation is a wise callout.
[blog] gRPC Communication Between Go and Python. If all your app components are written in the same language, kudos. That makes life easier. But for most everyone else, we need to think about interop and how to get these pieces talking. Here’s a good example.
[blog] Introducing delayed destruction for Secret Manager, a new way to protect your secrets. Use a secret story, I don’t care which. But if you use ours, there are new ways to get notified if a secret got deleted.
[blog] I’m Tired of Fixing Customers’ AI Generated Code. I don’t envy consultants who are going to have to come fix apps written entirely by well-meaning non-programmers.
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